Dove (moon crater)

Dove
Dove ( LROC -WAC)
position	46.85 °  S , 31.41 °  O coordinates: 46 ° 51 '0 "  S , 31 ° 24' 36"  O
diameter	30 km
depth	1740 m
Card sheet	113 (PDF)
Named after	Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Dove is an impact crater south of the lunar front , east of Spallanzani crater and west of Lockyer . The crater is heavily eroded and overlaid by the Dove C secondary crater in its southern part .

List of Dove minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	47 °  S , 33.46 °  O	13 km	[1]
B.	47.23 °  S , 33 °  E	21 km	[2]
C.	47.18 °  S , 30.76 °  O	19 km	[3]
Z	44.55 °  S , 29.19 °  E	8 kilometers	[4]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove .

Web links

• Dove in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Dove on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .